With their spiky hair, electric guitars, and dewy, lip-ringed smiles, Australia's 5 Seconds of Summer are often dubbed the One Direction of punk-pop.
It's an admittedly facile if apt comparison, reinforced by the fact that 5SOS (Five Sauce, as their fans call them) toured with One Direction in 2013.
However, even if 5SOS are a punk boy band, that's a minor distinction, and one that's arguably been around since Green Day brought it to inception with 1994's Dookie.
It's also a brilliant marketing tool brought to its apotheosis at the dawn of the millennium by blink-182's multi-platinum album Enema of the State.
Of course, when blink-182 mugged on a beach as they did in the video for "All the Small Things," it was a satirical goof on the greater TRL teen pop world that the trio found itself implausibly at the epicenter of in 1999.
For 5SOS, most of whom were still in diapers when the video premiered, it might as well have been the genesis moment, the birth of a cross-genre aesthetic rife with blink's cheeky punk attitude, but one in which the implied irony is lost, and everything is taken at face value.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
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| 1 | Fly AwayJohn Feldmann, Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood | 5 Seconds of Summer | Play | 03:32 | 8 MB | 26 MB |
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 Seconds of Summer | Primary Artist |
| 2 | Richard Andrews | Art Direction, Design |
| 3 | Kyle Black | Assistant Engineer |
| 4 | Zakk Cervini | Additional Production, Engineer, Programming |
| 5 | Jo Charrington | A&R |
| 6 | Michael Clifford | Composer |
| 7 | Clarence Coffee, Jr. | Composer |
| 8 | Chad Copelin | Engineer |
| 9 | Sean Maxwell Douglas | Composer |
| 10 | Michael Eckes | Assistant, Assistant Engineer |
| 11 | Dan Evans | Illustrations |
| 12 | John Feldmann | Composer, Engineer, Producer |
| 13 | Zien Garcia | Assistant, Programming |
| 14 | Alex Gaskarth | Composer |
| 15 | Jon Green | Composer |
| 16 | Michael Green | Composer, Engineer, Instrumentation, Producer, Programming |
| 17 | Isobel Griffiths | String Contractor |
| 18 | Luke Hemmings | Composer |
| 19 | David Hodges | Composer, Programming |
| 20 | Calum Hood | Composer |
| 21 | Sarah Hudson | Composer, Vocals (Background) |
| 22 | Nick Ingman | String Arrangements, String Conductor |
| 23 | Ashton Irwin | Composer |
| 24 | J-Kash | Composer |
| 25 | Jordan Johnson | Composer |
| 26 | Stefan Johnson | Composer, Engineer |
| 27 | Simon LeBon | Composer |
| 28 | Marcus Lomax | Composer |
| 29 | Justin Long | Mixing Assistant |
| 30 | Benji Madden | Composer |
| 31 | Joel Madden | Composer |
| 32 | Will McCoy | Assistant Engineer |
| 33 | Bonnie McKee | Composer, Vocals (Background) |
| 34 | The Monsters & Strangerz | Producer |
| 35 | Everton Nelson | Strings |
| 36 | Matt Pauling | Additional Production, Engineer, Guitar Arrangements, Programming, Strings |
| 37 | Nick Raphael | A&R |
| 38 | Nick Rhodes | Composer |
| 39 | Cian Riordan | Mixing Assistant |
| 40 | Jake Scott | Assistant |
| 41 | Luke Shrestha | Assistant |
| 42 | Allie Snow | Assistant |
| 43 | Steven Solomon Miller | Guitar |
| 44 | Nico Stadi | Instrumentation, Programming |
| 45 | Dennis Stainken | Marketing |
| 46 | Roy Stride | Composer |
| 47 | Andy Taylor | Composer |
| 48 | John Taylor | Composer |
| 49 | Roger Taylor | Composer |
| 50 | Ago "Sethh" Teppand | Programming |
| 51 | Ben Thackeray | Engineer |
| 52 | Eric Valentine | Mastering, Mixing |
| 53 | Tom Van Schelven | Photography |
| 54 | Meg Veale | Assistant |
| 55 | Simon Wilcox | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |